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On taxation, political accountability and foreign aid : empirics to a celebrated literature
Asongu, Simplice - In: The South African journal of economics 83 (2015) 2, pp. 180-198
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Conditional linkages between iron ore exports, foreign aid and terrorism
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
We employ interactive quantile regressions to assess conditional linkages between foreign aid, iron ore exports and terrorism from a panel of 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008. The following main findings are established. First, it is primarily in the countries with the highest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542271
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Rational asymmetric development, Piketty and poverty in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
An April 2015 World Bank report on the Millennium Development Goal poverty target has revealed that extreme poverty has … asymmetric development between rich and poor countries. Piketty has shown that inequality increases when the return on capital is … development increases and Africa may not catch-up with the developed world. As an ideal solution, Piketty has proposed progressive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548648
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Foreign aid and corruption : clarifying murky empirical conclusions
Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Beecroft, Ibukun; Asongu, … - 2014
that both narratives in the debate are correct, contingent on the type of development assistance. The QR results are robust …
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Foreign aid and corruption : clarifying murky empirical conclusions
Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Beecroft, Ibukun; Asongu, … - In: Foreign trade review : FTR ; quarterly journal of … 54 (2019) 3, pp. 253-263
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137170
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Taxation, foreign aid and political governance in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019
policy options, the dataset is disaggregated into fundamental characteristics of African development based on income levels … characteristics of development. Policy implications, caveats and directions for future research are discussed. …
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Can foreign aid dampen the threat of terrorism to international trade? : evidence from 78 developing countries
Asongu, Simplice; Leke, Ivo J. - 2018
The study investigates whether development assistance can be used to crowd-out the negative effect of terrorism on … is primarily in countries with above median levels of international trade that development assistance can be used as an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998205
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Foreign aid, instability and governance in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph - 2019
This study contributes to the attendant literature by bundling governance dynamics and focusing on foreign aid instability instead of foreign aid. We assess the role of foreign aid instabilit y on governance dynamics in fifty three African countries for the period 1996-2010. An autoregressive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998497
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Foreign aid volatility and lifelong learning
Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2019
This paper has put a demand-side empirical structure to the hypothesis that foreign aid volatility adversely affects choices to lifelong learning in recipient countries. Lifelong learning is measured as the combined knowledge acquired during primary, secondary and tertiary educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012128415
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Conditional linkages between iron ore exports, foreign aid and terrorism
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - In: Mineral economics : raw materials report 29 (2016) 2/3, pp. 57-70
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011639285